Wade Rathke: Chief Organizer Blog

Washington       Iceland, as many now know though few perhaps care, became a modern contradiction of a small, rich, first world nation suddenly becoming the white bread case study of a failed state and an entire national culture standing for a portrait of fiscal excess and damaged credit. Over night [...]

New Orleans The daily Obama Administration watch is an on-going fascination of consuming interest. These folks continue to surprise, and not just me, it seems virtually everyone. In short order they seem to have transferred two years of campaigning into a similar war room style operation in the White House as part of the perpetual [...]

New Orleans In my dealings with them over the years I have found HSBC to be a fascinating company with some wild extremes and some very redeeming qualities as well. Floyd Norris of the Times noted the end of an era with the bull’s-eye shot on the acquisition of Household Finance [...]

New Orleans     Since I’ve taken the burden of keeping the faithful reader up to date on tactical developments we see here and about as they come across attention, I wanted to share the work of group called Plane Stupid in Scotland that is trying to prevent [...]

New Orleans   The first weeks of this new administration have been an organizer’s education. Here’s the summary judgment: if you push, they respond! That’s important to know if you are putting together campaigns. Another example was front and center today [...]

New Orleans     The National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP) headed by Aaron Dorfman issued a report this week calling on reforms in giving by donors and foundations based on an extensive survey of the practices of 800 grant makers over a 3 year period. [...]

New Orleans    Another report from Dharmendra Kumar of progress in beginning a new organization of informal workers in Delhi, this time located in Shakarpur. It’s a pleasure to share this report from the field of a small but significant step forward. A meeting of ACORN International Domestic Women’s Federation was held [...]

New Orleans    Steven Greenhouse, the ace labor reporter for the Times and perhaps the last of that dying breed, in an article about the current love-fest between the Obama Administration and organized labor, quoted business sources indicting the Senators that corporate America is targeting in order to deny [...]